Internet in China
Those of you paying attention may have noticed that I was originally going to post travel stuff on my old blog, but then switched to doing it all here. There is a method to the madness, however, and the reason behind the switch is a little thing called the Great Firewall of China.
A lot of sites and services are blocked here, including blogger/blogspot as well as facebook, twitter and youtube. In fact, my website (philipmayes.com) is blocked here but the tumblr backend isn’t, so I can still post, I just can’t read my site to check it all went up okay. Sorry if things end up a bit wacky, I have no way of knowing!
As a side note, skype isn’t blocked here and I had a video call with my brother Greg when we arrived in Shanghai. So they don’t mind you communicating directly with one person, they just don’t like you communicating with the masses.
